Please Think Back on When and Why We Went to Afghanistan [View all]

[MineralMan]

Please do that before blaming Joe Biden for pulling the US military out of that country. We are not abandoning Afghanistan. We never had any business being there in the first place. Is it a nice place, full of democracy-loving people? No. It is not. It never was. It is a country ruled by hardcore Islamic conservatives. It was before we went there, and it still is.

We did not go there to "liberate" the Afghani people. We did not go here to establish the rights of Afghani women. Think back to the time when we invaded that country on the pretext of finding and punishing Osama Bin-Laden. And he wasn't even there. We killed him in Pakistan.

Who sent troops to Afghanistan in the first place? Try to remember that.

What of value did we accomplish there? The answer is simple: Nothing. Not a damned thing.

We had no business going there in the first place. Our motives for doing so had nothing to do with helping the Afghani people.

Now, we are leaving. We should have left long ago. In fact, we should not have gone there in the first place.